Loucura: experiência da alma ou experiência do corpo?

Abstract

This paper aims to raise a preliminary discussion about how the dualism body versus mind can be call into question through the experience of mental health patients. The arguments I present here were first developed in the "Body Anthropology" course I attended in my PhD's studies. During the course, I made an exploratory fieldwork about this subject in a countryside public hospital of Bahia. At the psychiatric hospital I made some interviews to better understand the corporal experiences of the patients and the results are discussed in the following text.